MNS MLA from Maharashtra!!!
The one in the red circle… he was one of the 4 MLAs suspended for manhandling Abu Azim Azmi for taking oath in hindi and not marathi.
Politicians or Hooligans?
Looks more like a goonda from a tamil film. Just look at the amount of jewellery he is wearing! Lol! And to top it, I am told he is from Uttar Pradesh, not a marathi ‘manoo’!
Nothing!
What did Indians of the past discover? Nothing! Nothing!
What happens to stuff…
Anyone who is concerned about our lives in this world should take a look at the video here. It is about 20mins long.
It’s just a coincidence that I just touched upon this topic in the very previous post.
How did it come to this?
Why do we have to struggle so much to get our basic needs? People struggle everyday for years, claiming that they do so for the welfare of their children. In that pursuit, we take almost everything for granted, right from availability of grains and water to the fact that we will live on until a certain age. The moment something goes wrong, the express of life comes to a jolting halt.
We all work for a living… all the time, at offices, workshops, on the move, at night. We are connected to the web of information even when flying or on a remote island.Yet we don’t have time to sit down with our near and dear, why, even one’s own children when they need us most. Both parents are away at work when this poor child is kept silent watching pokemon or Ninja turtles on TV. And when the teachers complain that the kid had beaten up another or broken stuff throwing them around, the parents’ ire is shown on the kids!
Corporations spring up like weeds overnight and claim to provide ‘better products’!! Cut throat competition is seen as a virtue. Getting to the top spot in the market, by hook or crook, is considered an ideal worth anything in this world, even if it costs one’s health, family or even life. Greed knows no end, yet in the name of development only greed is getting developed. Why do we need 40 different brands of electric toothbrush or mattress? How does it matter whether you travel in a Benz or an Alto, when in the end all you want is to reach your office? We see ‘we love our customers’ in supermarkets…. but NO!!, they love our credit cards! End of the quarter… oh, this deal needs to be done… revenue targets, beat the sales figures.. consumerism… consumerism… consumerism. This is consuming this world slowly and surely.
Why do we have to be like a machine, devoid of basic feelings of companionship to our fellow living entities? Why can’t we lead simpler lives? When did life become so complex that we get need counseling on the art of living? When did we become so hard at heart that we don’t stop to help an injured man or animal on the road? When did we become so short sighted that we would stand on the branch of a tree yet start hacking at the root?
Where is the purpose to this life? What are we doing here? How did it come to this?
For the greater good…?
Found this in one of the comments on a blog.
“Now, there are many animals and plants suffering here for our research. Do I invoke christianity? No, sometimes for the greater good you may do researcher on cancer on rats or brain monitoring of monkeys.”
My first reaction was simply ‘wtf’. I think he meant for ‘greater money’, perhaps. Why don’t these people test stuff like these on themselves?
Who gives them the bloody liberty to harm another living being and take everything on this good earth for granted?
Congress Govt….? Zzzzz…
Wake up, you morons!! You fools are squabbling over which portfolios to give to which party, when other countries playing ‘inky, pinky, ponky’ on our country’s lands for choosing which one to take.
Do you see Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh in India? This map is found in some place in China.
India Redrawn 
Ball of karma
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8337182.stm
That’s a 101kg ball of karma right there!
*sigh*… the things that people do for achieving their 1 page of fame.
Mozhi… repost
Just saw the movie “Mozhi” again today. As usual, this is one of the very few tamil movies that I have sat down watched without regret. I translated the song “Kaatrin mozhi…” from this movie a long while ago… felt like reposting it.
Is the wind’s language sound or music?
Is the flower’s language color or scent?
Is the ocean’s language waves or froth?
Are the eyes or lips the language of love?
If nature’s languages can be understood,
Human languages are not needed!
If the heart’s languages can be understood,
Humans need no language!
When the wind blows, there are no directions!
When love speaks, there are no languages!
Silence cannot be understood like spoken words!
Words spoken by Eyes, even God doesn’t know!
For the blowing wind, a shape cannot be painted!
The languages of love do not fit in cage of sounds!
The speech of skies emerges as droplets!
The speech of rainbow emerges as colors!
When truth loses its voice, tears become the language!
When femininity loses its voice, shyness becomes the language!
The time when sound sleeps, stars become a language!
In a heart where desire sleeps, every movement becomes a language!
Spewing acid…
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/g08htHindusAtFatima_Vennari.html
This Vennari guy beats Pat Robertson! May God take pity on both of them.
I am left speechless.
Edit 1: I have several friends who are christian (some of them are ‘hardcore’).
Edit 2: Having faced several attempts to be preached at by christian missionaries during my 3+ years of stay in USA, I guess I can say that I know quite a bit on how they work in to your minds. Nothing wrong in preaching your faith… but the method’s that some of these ‘fundamentalist missionaries’ use are utterly disgusting. On the other hand, I have also had some pretty amusing experiences with them. Here’s one!
End of the World!
One of my friends sent me this link today on chat:
http://www.merinews.com/article/the-world-will-end-in-2012-say-experts/139440.shtml
I would call this pure ‘BS’… but whether the world as we know it will end or not does not concern me one bit. After all, anything in this existence that does have a beginning, must have an end. Let it end or transform or morph when it wants to or has to.
But I am sure Kalkiji and his wife will now have the time of their lives, claiming ’scientific’ support. Latest news is that their ’son’, Krishnaji, is also in to this business now!!(search on google… these people rule the search result for ‘oneness’).
Meddling with nature
THIS is a clear case of how economic opportunism drives every so called innovation. It MUST be made mandatory to label GM foods to distinguish them from normal products. Personally, I would never touch anything of these things if they are put up for sale in the market.
It’s a shame that corporate well being is put ahead of well being of the people.
You can find more information on Greenpeace’s website here.
Demon in a bottle
What is it about a bottle of beer or whiskey that makes so many people grin from ear to ear? I frankly don’t understand the concept of fun in drinking! I have seen people being normal when they are sober, but transforming in to something really disgusting, after they had their ration for the day of the sarakku.
Social drinking… you just get to a party, then you socialize, while drinking… that’s it? Oh… no way! Here’s more. How about vomiting all the crap you put inside your stomach on your girl( or boy)friend’s dress? yuck… not nice! Hey,how about letting out the secret of how you got to do the deed with some nameless bitch years ago? Ouch… that slap from your wife must hurt! Or How about having to lie all night in a ditch that you fell in to, until your friends realize that you took a step to the wrong side trying to get in to the car last night?
It is a shame that even the governments nowadays encourage this by opening liquor shops.
I guess I will never quite understand obsession that people have on this kazhudhai muthiram (donkey piss, tamil words courtesy of ‘Naan Kadavul’ film).
Price of peace?
So, Obama won the Nobel peace prize.
I got nothing personal against Obama, but I am not sure if I should term this as joke of the year 2009 or not.
Misc. rants
1) DMK fools are up to it again. These people will never improve… including their grand old man, who has given a new definition to ‘family politics’!
2) Our fellow citizens chew too much paan. There is even one called ‘Honeymoon special’ costing Rs.100 with ‘chittu kuruvi lehiyam’ (no clue on what it is actually, but claimed to be an aphrodisiac… ). *Quack warning*
3) There are too many ’swamijis’ around. Those who want to get cheated, get cheated.
4) Too much of ‘light’ pollution… its been some years since I had a clear view of starry sky at night.
5) Too many people dig their nose and fart in public. The look on their face when ‘discovered’ is, well… I will leave at that. Nasty.
Descending Knowledge
This was posted by me as a comment in the ‘Atheist or Intellectual’ post. Thought it might actually be good to have this as a blog post.
Vedic methodology acknowledges that we are limited in our knowledge gaining capabilities, through direct sense perception, logical inference or historical records. These processes have their uses, but cannot guarantee correct knowledge at all times, especially so when the object they are trying to understand is infinitely complex and our position and capabilities are infinitesimal.
This understanding is the first prerequisite for what the vedic methodology recognizes as the process of descending knowledge, called ‘Shabda’ or revealed sound, in which perfect knowledge descends from the absolute being, AKA God, who is conscious of all time and space simultaneously.
This knowledge is passed down through an unbroken line of qualified, unalloyed loving devotees who are bonafide spiritual masters. That line of teachers is commonly known as ’sampradaya’ or disciplic succession.
Now comes the question – How can we differentiate what is true Shabda?
Absolute or perfect knowledge is one that is never subject to change. Contrary to modern scientific methodology where theories are almost always being ‘improved’ upon, there absolutely no place for speculation in the process of shabda. Given that this knowledge comes from, and is basically part of, the absolute being, it is perfect and if someone attempts to change any of that information through speculation, it would inject inherent imperfections in to that knowledge too. So, any speculative changes made in transit would render the knowledge, as well as the person passing it on, as non-authoritative.
In summary, the objective of the vedic methodology is to know the absolute being. Understanding that the knowledge descends from the absolute being through the line of masters is the only way to progress in this methodology.
Of course, if a person considers the vedic literature to be imaginative creations of mortals with their inherent defects, then they hold no authoritative value for that person.
Begging and ego!
This is probably old news, but here it is anyway:
These two folks beg and eat food purchased with the money received as alms. So what? There are millions who beg every single day. The only difference here is these folks go back from their one day outing with assurance that they will actually get their next meal.
Just another (weird) publicity stunt?
Note1: I don’t understand why, but there seems to be this belief that charity and social service is equivalent to spiritual development.
Note 2: Why would anyone want to lose their ego! If they meant to lose their ‘false-ego’, then it might make a bit of sense.
Note 3: The beggar get-up sucks on both of them… you want to beg, good for you!! At the very least, make it look realistic. Oh and don’t talk to reporters (just kidding!)
How do you pronounce this?
Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi
Want to know more? Click here! (Don’t worry… it links to a Wikipedia page)
Are you receptive to critical comments?
Over the last 6 years of my presence in the blogging world, one thing I have seen is that when you put up your opinion in a public domain, do not expect just praise from everyone. You will most certainly have critical comments from some people. Your reputation in the blogging world will also be affected by the way you respond to such comments.
There are people who can handle critical comments with grace and others who do just the opposite.
I have been involved in an interaction with Radha Chandran at Gingerchai and I am impressed at the way she as well as Mr. Lakshmi Rajan have been handling it. Nicely done.
Do your bit to save this Earth!
The next time you order take-away from a restaurant, carry a hotpack and some smaller metal vessels to pack the food from the restaurant.
That way, you can save a lot of plastic bags, heat-seal wraps and paper from getting wasted.
Sounds absurd? Think.
Lord Krishna existed. School texts are wrong.
So says a nuclear medicine physician.
The interesting interview can be found here.
Interaction on Gingerchai
I have been involved in an interaction with authors on www.gingerchai.com, on the topic of “Understanding the concept of God”.
If anyone wants to take a look, go here.
Meditation mania
Why are people so much obsessed with meditation? Not just one type… seems like there is a whole bunch of hi-fi names floating around.
You can’t even get some quiet place to sit down for 10 minutes these days. And you can hardly stop thinking about work and family.
Add to this the myriad of programs available… not to mention the money you spend on them… is it even worth it?
Atheist or Intellectual?
I was reading through a magazine last week wherein there was this in response to a reader’s query: “You need to be an intellectual to be an atheist!”.
Is that really so? Then, are all atheists intellectuals?
My friend in the blogworld, Ketan states in his profile that elements of honesty, introspection, analysis go into someone turning an atheist.
That made me wonder: Is it that one who is not an atheist is not honest nor does that one possess the gift of introspection and analysis?
Cannot one be endowed with all that and still be a strong believer in God?
What makes 2 individuals, having the same skills at analysis and ability to ascertain things and their causes, end up with completely different conclusions and yet lets them feel the other person’s conclusion is the wrong one?
Dog Lard? OMG!
So, if its done to dogs, its considered animal cruelty but fattening and killing millions of pigs each day is not cruel??
Such hypocrites!
Sach ka saamna?
Our people have no originality. Even in cooking up reality shows, they need to ‘emulate’ their western ‘buddy’ networks.
Never seen this show on TV as such, but from what I hear, it sounds more like the Maury show or Jerry Springer shown across US networks… may be a bit more dignified in staging than the above, but yuck, nonetheless.
A poser to those who wish to come on the show:
Why not just let skeletons in the closet be just that and move on with your life? The temptation of money, even if it amounts to the risk of admitting your dark secrets and destroy a couple more lives, is too strong to resist, is it?
Taxes and Death…
“People often say death and taxes are the same, but this is wrong. Death is a taxable event, but taxes never die.” – Anonymous
One crowded bus…
Scene: Me holding a heavy bag in one hand, standing in a ‘VERY’ crowded bus, trying to get to the exit before the bus arrives at the next bus stop where I needed to get down.
I was blocked by the conductor and a zillion others from moving forward to the bus’s exit stair. All of a sudden, I hear a shrill girly voice mouthing some gibberish in Hindi-Urdu mix (sorry, I am not good with either language) and on the side, I saw the source of the sound… a Muslim girl (about 15yrs of age) making some rude, jerking movements with her hand towards me. I understood that she wants me to move on and not stand next to her mother or aunt… the Muslim lady who happened to have the aisle seat near which I was stuck.
Apparently, in my twisted pose of having one hand raising the bag above to avoid hitting people and one hand holding the overhead rails for balance, I had brushed against the lady’s arm. And now she thinks I have no better job than standing there and wants me to move away.
I stammered some response to the effect that ‘I can’t do anything because the bus is crowded’… but my thanks are due to the gentleman who explained to me that the lady feels its ‘Paap’ or ‘sin’ for a man to brush against her… he also basically let off a swift line of words that basically said ‘STFU’ (for the uninitiated, its ‘shut the f**k up!!’) to the ladies. Now the ‘ladies’ began to shout at him.
At that time, the bus came to the stop where I needed to get off. Grabbing my chance, I slipped out between the gaps (with a bit of shoving and pushing, actually).
I wish I knew enough Hindi to say just this:
“It’s a bloody, super-crowded bus, and I need to get down at the next stop. I cannot jump out of the window and have to go ‘through’ the crowd to get to the exit.
You ladies hop on to a bulgingly crowded bus, take the aisle seat and then complain that your religious sentiments are hurt because of some man brushing against you when he is trying to get out of the bus? Too f’ing bad! Hire a bloody auto or taxi next time you want to travel… let’s say, unbrushed?!!”
Al-Qaida’s number two urges…??
*chuckle* (you know why I am chuckling here! Don’t act as if you don’t!)
Here’s the link to the article. Al-Qaida ‘number two urges’…hehe!
“(If) we stand by passively without offering due support to the mujahedeen, we shall not only contribute to the destruction of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but we shall also deserve the painful punishment of Almighty Allah.”
Trying to get support for one’s religious views by using fear… What a shame!
Maanam ketta pozhappu
நாட்டை பேரம் பேசி பங்கு போடறதே அசிங்கம். வெட்கம் மானம் சூடு சொரணை… ம்ம்ம் ஹ்ம்ம்
இந்த லக்ஷனதுல நொட்டநை வேற!
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3036324
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